Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.

I was punched breathless by the strongest emotions I have ever felt and they are now stored in my intuition as a writer.

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.

You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.